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16404230 No.16404230 [Reply] [Original]

what works should i read beforehand to understand plotinus?
can i just jump in blind and read his works or do i need to have some context?

>> No.16404249

>>16404230
Since he was a devout polytheist, I would recommend you reading up on some myths. Also his philosophy is an unbroken line of thought from Plato so you should read Plato beforehand too.

>> No.16404251

>>16404230
All of the Greeks, so you can understand how Plotinus or the Neoplatonists are a different school of thougth essentially to Plato and interpret and understand him in the context of their own thought, different to his-- though they thought it was one and the same.

>> No.16404278

>>16404230
reading the Enneads in the order they were published apparently makes no sense, you need to get a guide, to fully understand his different lectures

>> No.16404771

>>16404249
>Plotinus was a devout polytheist
No. OP, ignore this retard he has never read Plotinus.

>> No.16405026

>>16404771
>he thinks the platonists(including Plato himself) were not all devout polytheists
oh no... he's retarded ;^(